“Thou, nature, partial nature, I arraign! Of thy caprice maternal I complain!”—Burns’s Poems, p. 50. “Nor knows he who it is his arms pursue With eager clasps, but loves he knows not who.”—Addison’s, p. 218.
UNDER NOTE I.—OF VERBS TRANSITIVE.
“When it gives that sense, and also connects, it is a conjunction.”—L. Murray’s Gram., p. 116. “Though thou wilt not acknowledge, thou canst not deny the fact.”—Murray’s Key, p. 209. “They specify, like many other adjectives, and connect sentences.”—Kirkham’s Gram., p. 114. “The violation of this rule tends so much to perplex and obscure, that it is safer to err by too many short sentences.”—Murray’s Gram., p. 312. “A few Exercises are subjoined to each important definition, for him to practice upon as he proceeds in committing.”—Nutting’s Gram., 3d Ed., p. vii. “A verb signifying actively governs the accusative.”—Adam’s Gram., p. 171; Gould’s, 172; Grant’s, 199; and others. “Or, any word that will conjugate, is a verb.”—Kirkham’s Gram., p. 44. “In these two concluding sentences, the author, hastening to finish, appears to write rather carelessly.”—Blair’s Rhet., p. 216. “He simply reasons on one side of the question, and then finishes.”—Ib., p. 306. “Praise to God teaches to be humble and lowly ourselves.”—ATTERBURY: ib., p. 304. “This author has endeavored to surpass.”—Green’s Inductive Gram., p. 54. “Idleness and plezure fateeg az soon az bizziness.”—Noah